Jessica K asked:


I am very involved in the war situation in Gaza. While watching a news broadcast in CNN, it seems their news is unbalanced. They’re statements seem very biased, showing facts only on Gaza’s side. For example, they summarized the sequence of events of the situation in Gaza starting with Israel attacks. They act completely oblivious to the fact that Hamas started the missile attacks days before. The sequence they presented is very misleading.

Also, CNN news constantly features stories of Palestinian woman and children wounded and dying. They present these stories by saying While Israeli bombs create clouds of smoke over Gaza, Palestinians suffer with lack of medical supplies… etc. The way these stories are presented, from the choice of words to the tone of the reporters voice shows utter disgust for the actions Israel is taking to protect it’s people and country.

I’ve heard that CNN has a reputation of biasing news in their party (Democrats) favor. News should be objective without opinion interfering, especially when broadcasting events as huge and important as these. CNN, being a main world news channel, should know this.

Does anyone else notice this bias?

BOYD

My vote counted. Erudite asked:


Source: Cnn News this morning. What did they show? They showed a Marine holding prisoners but the prisoners looked very brave and the Marine was shaking like a leaf in a wind storm. Why was the Marine shaking?

RONNY

Nazir Hussain asked:


How many times you have heard this and then waited anxiously for the news…?

Against the background of the tsunami with devastating consequences, hurricanes in the USA which did an untold amount of damage to lives and property. Add to his the loss of life, homelessness coupled with chronic shortage of food directly attributable to the South Asian earth quake… you almost expect bad news all the time.

Do we always get all the NEWS or do we get the NEWS that higher powers decide we should have access to? I found myself asking this very question during a recent visit to the USA..

My self-actuated assignment imposed intensive workload during the day. During the course of the evening, I wanted to find out what was going on in the rest of the world. My quest to keep up with the current affairs across the four corners of the world forced me to flick through 100s of channels; I tried the well established names such as CNN and NBC along with all the local media. Every one of these news providers focussed on home news.

The phrase “NEWS” is an acronym standing for North, East, West, finally S for South. In that regard, is it not reasonable to expect news from across the world? Clearly, people in some quarters don’t subscribe to this view as I found out to my cost. I found myself in a virtual vacuum; a feeling of being somehow disconnected from the rest of the world or the world that I had become accustomed to. My mind was deprived of essential information; a news feed, and it was almost asking for information.

I was asking people around me for information about the rest of the world… someone mentioned an explosion in England.. please tell me more I asked what and how this explosion happened.. Was there any loss of life? Did my friends and family suffer as a result of this explosion. I sincerely hope.. this is not another act of terrorism by some group wanting to make or leave its mark on the civilised world. I could not find any information. What impact does such a scenario have on people I was asking? People live their entire lives and don’t even find out or get to know about the rest of the world.. How sad?

Finally, the dire consequences of localised news focus creates a kind of unhealthy ignorance that we don’t need. We are living in an information age yet some mediums prevent the free flow of that information. If we are going to change the world then we need to know the world, we need to replace the vacuum with information and we need to ensure that it is flowing in a natural manner. CNN, NBC & FOX NEWS… here is your chance to make your contribution to the world by making the American public aware of the rest of the world and its existence. Visitors to the USA will benefit as well.

CNN is one global network which does reach people across the world. However, a lot more needs to be done to bring the world closer together and now.



MICHEAL

Nicole Evans asked:


There are a lot of plans on the table to supply the owners of portable devices with video that can be viewed on the go. These schemes range from dedicated over the air digital TV channels that are designed to specifically target users of portable devices like mobile phones to data networks that run in parallel to the normal digital voice network that allows mobile phone users to communicate using traditional speech. Among all of the different schemes that are used to supply users of mobile devices with video, there’s one source of video that’s largely overlooked: the Internet.

While most mobile phones don’t have the Internet capabilities that allow them to access online video, this is an easy task for the vast majority of smart phones. After all, part of the whole point of smart phones is to enable their users to surf the Web, and this is more true with the latest generation of smart phones than it ever has been before. After all, many devices like the iPhone, the Helio Ocean, the newer Blackberries, and the Palm Treo; can all almost serve as laptop computers in miniature.

The iPhone by Apple and the Helio Ocean are especially adept at this because of the fact that they both of 16:9 aspect ratio screens and can take advantage of WiFi hot spots as a source of Internet access, and most WiFi connections are capable of providing streaming video. The Prada Phone (though not available in the US) and several Nokia models can also be used this way.

While a lot of people don’t take advantage of it, there’s a lot of TV content available for free on the Internet. Most of the major TV networks provide streaming video feeds of their most popular TV shows. Many other TV network’s will provider short “Teaser” videos about shows that can provide shorter entertainment and give viewers an idea of what a TV show is about even if they don’t have time to actually watch it. There’s also a largely untapped resource of video in the form of news sites like CNN and NPR and a wide variety of other media outlets that supply video. And, of course, there’s always YouTube for a huge variety of interesting- if unprofessional- video entertainment to enjoy.

Another source of video for some types of portable devices is the video download. Everything from popular mainstream TV shows to full length movies are available for download from various online video stores. While downloading a video from an online video store and then side loading it to a portable device obviously requires much more planning than simply watching streaming video directly off of the Web, it provides a lot more flexibility. For example, these videos can be viewed on portable devices in places where an Internet connection is unavailable or unreliable, making this a great option for traveling.

Plus, some of the newest smart phones mentioned above can handle this kind of video as well, though they won’t be able to store as much of it as a dedicated portable video device.

All of these examples illustrate that there are already a wide variety of choices available when it comes to mobile TV viewing.



OLIVER

We won! 20 Jan 09 (Erudite) asked:


Three years ago most Americans said YES to the war in Iraq. Why has it changed? Why do most Americans want the war to end? How come we thought there was WMD?

LEON